The BMI and the way it's used - and misused - is so meaningless as to be insane.
If you want some interesting reading on the subject of "obesity" and its purported health risks, I can recommend the Junk Food Science blog (http://www.junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/). She often casts a skeptical scientist's eye at the way the popular press reports human health studies, and goes to the primary source material to tell us what the studies *really* found ... which is often not at all what we're led to believe.
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Date: 2007-10-07 04:19 pm (UTC)If you want some interesting reading on the subject of "obesity" and its purported health risks, I can recommend the Junk Food Science blog (http://www.junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/). She often casts a skeptical scientist's eye at the way the popular press reports human health studies, and goes to the primary source material to tell us what the studies *really* found ... which is often not at all what we're led to believe.